I can hardly blame you for it. It isn't as if sleeplessness is uncommon in this place for many of us.
[He kneels down, closer to their eye level even if they can hardly see one another in this low light.]
It must be so different from home...
[He pauses a moment. He's been feeling...well, down, recently. Feeling like they probably won't escape and the best he can hope for is keeping the people he cares about here from dying horribly.
But there's something he and Frisk have in common. Feeling like it's unlikely has not stopped him from looking. Though with Clayton's kidnapping has come a shift in immediate priority, he has every intention of looking for opportunities, whether he pursues them himself or directs someone else to them. Even if they're probably a dead end. He didn't find the Tower said to be a myth by nearly the whole region by giving up without trying. Even if his mood cratered he would eventually pick himself back up again, and even if his own psyche and what he will learn is called MN poisoning are combined against him on this one now, he has still felt worse.
Maybe if he was all alone he wouldn't be able to do it. Maybe the only thing giving him optimism is the fact that there are other people to fight for. Or maybe he really is just that determined. Either way, the point is:]
There might be a way to send us home out there. And if there is, I will do what I can to help find it.
wow this kind of turned into ~determination~ wordvomit I'm sorry
[He kneels down, closer to their eye level even if they can hardly see one another in this low light.]
It must be so different from home...
[He pauses a moment. He's been feeling...well, down, recently. Feeling like they probably won't escape and the best he can hope for is keeping the people he cares about here from dying horribly.
But there's something he and Frisk have in common. Feeling like it's unlikely has not stopped him from looking. Though with Clayton's kidnapping has come a shift in immediate priority, he has every intention of looking for opportunities, whether he pursues them himself or directs someone else to them. Even if they're probably a dead end. He didn't find the Tower said to be a myth by nearly the whole region by giving up without trying. Even if his mood cratered he would eventually pick himself back up again, and even if his own psyche and what he will learn is called MN poisoning are combined against him on this one now, he has still felt worse.
Maybe if he was all alone he wouldn't be able to do it. Maybe the only thing giving him optimism is the fact that there are other people to fight for. Or maybe he really is just that determined. Either way, the point is:]
There might be a way to send us home out there. And if there is, I will do what I can to help find it.